A disc driving apparatus and an information readout method according to the present invention realize optimum servo control of a readout unit in reading out the information from a recording medium having lands and grooves. The disc driving apparatus includes a unit for correcting tracking error signals, a unit for inverting signals corrected by the correcting unit to generate inverted tracking error signals, a unit for detecting which of the lands and the grooves the readout unit is scanning, and a unit for selecting the tracking error signals or the inverted tracking error signals according to the results of detection by the detection unit to tracking-control the readout unit by the selected signals.
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1. A disc driving apparatus comprising: a tracking error signal generator adapted to generate a tracking error signal (TE), said tracking error signal (TE) indicating a deviation of a scanning position of an optical pickup; and a half track jump control circuit adapted to control a movement of said optical pickup through controlling an acceleration said optical pickup followed by controlling a negative acceleration said optical pickup, and adapted to control a halting of the movement of said optical pickup, wherein said acceleration is along a radial direction of a recording medium, a signal level of said tracking error signal (TE) at a start of said acceleration (T 1 ) changing from a reference value (SL) toward a slicing level (L 2 ), wherein said negative acceleration is along a direction opposite said radial direction, said negative acceleration being initiated (T 2 ) when the signal level of said tracking error signal (TE) becomes less than said slicing level (L 2 ), and wherein said halting follows said negative acceleration, said halting being initiated (T 3 ) once the signal level of said tracking error signal (TE) is no longer less than said slicing level (L 2 ).
2. The disc driving apparatus as recited in claim 1 , wherein said tracking error signal generator is an RF amplifier.
3. The disc driving apparatus as recited in claim 1 , wherein said slicing level (L 2 ) is a lower than said reference value.
4. The disc driving apparatus as recited in claim 1 , wherein lands and grooves are formed alternately on said recording medium in said radial direction.
5. The disc driving apparatus as recited in claim 4 , wherein said scanning position is between adjacent lands.
6. The disc driving apparatus as recited in claim 4 , wherein said scanning position is between adjacent grooves.
7. The disc driving apparatus as recited in claim 4 , wherein information is recorded in said lands and grooves.
8. A method for reading out the information from a recording medium with lands and grooves, the method comprising the steps of: accelerating an optical pickup (T 1 ) along a radial direction of a recording medium when a signal level of a tracking error signal (TE) changes from a reference value (SL) toward a slicing level (L 2 ), and thereafter; negative accelerating said optical pickup (T 2 ) along a direction opposite said radial direction when the signal level of said tracking error signal (TE) becomes less than said slicing level (L 2 ), and thereafter; halting movement of said optical pickup (T 3 ) when the signal level of said tracking error signal (TE) becomes no longer less than said slicing level (L 2 ).
9. The method as recited in claim 8 , wherein said first slicing level (L 1 ) is a higher than said reference value.
10. The method as recited in claim 8 , wherein said second slicing level (L 2 ) is a lower than said reference value.
11. The method as recited in claim 8 , wherein the lands and grooves are formed alternately on said recording medium in said radial direction.
12. The method as recited in claim 11 , wherein said tracking error signal (TE) indicates a deviation of a scanning position of said optical pickup.
13. The method as recited in claim 12 , wherein said scanning position is between adjacent lands.
14. The method as recited in claim 12 , wherein said scanning position is between adjacent grooves.
15. The method as recited in claim 12 , wherein information is recorded in said lands and grooves.
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March 20, 2002
January 1, 2008
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